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J. R. HARRISON. GOMBINED GRAINBLEVATOR AND GONVEYER.

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No. 565,076. Patented Aug. 4,18%.

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UNITED STATES PATENT JAMES R. HARRISON, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO SELBY, STARR 8a 00., OF SAME PLACE.

COM BIN ED G RAIN ELEVATOR AND CONVEYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,076, dated August 4, 1896.

Application tiled March 31,1896. Serial No. 585,594,. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: mechanical modifications of parts of the ap- Be it known that I, Janus R. HARRISON, a paratus hereinafter described. citizen of the United States, residing at Pe- The numeral 1 designates the upper pororia, in the county of Peoria and State of Illition of an ordinary grain-elevator tube, the

nois, have invented certain new and useful grain-elevating mechanism and its driving- Improvements in a Combined Grain Elevator gear not shown. Neither is the thresher and i and Conveyor, of which the following is a separator shown, to which the elevator-tube specification. is fixed and by which it is sustained in posi- The combined grain elevator and conveyer tion. The box 2 is part of an ordinary grainto to which the invention that is herein do weigher which receives and weighs grain and scribed pertains belongs to that general class delivers it to the COHVGyGY-SPOHlE in an ordiof grain elevators and conveyors in which the nary manner. The weigher-box 2 may be conveyerspout is adjustably fixed to the fixed to the elevator-tube by means of the grain-elevator tube or leg in such manner bracket-arm G, as shown, or maybe supported 15 to receive the grain elevated either from the in any other practical manner. elevator-tube direct or from a grain-weigher The conveyor-spout 3, without departure interposed between the elevator and the adfrom the purview of my invention, may be justable conductorspout and to deliver the either hinged to the discharge end of the elegrain at different points, as desired. vator-tube direct or to the discharge of the 20 My present invention is intended more esgrain-weigher in any desired or preferred 7o peeially for the improvement of that class of manner which will permit of adjusting the elevators and conveyors which are used with outer end of the elevator-tube at different grain thresher and separator machines, and heights and in different radial directions the leading object of the invention is to profrom the elevator, as shown, respectively, by

5 vide improved means for adjusting the condot lines at Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. In

veyer-spouts of such class, by which means this instance I have shown the conveyorthe conveyor-spouts can be readily, easily, spout as supported by and hinged by pivotand quickly adjusted to deliver grain at difbolts 4: to the lower end of a short tube 5,

ferent heights and in different radial direc- Fig. 1, to permit of adjusting the eonveyero tions from the elevator-tube, and which spout at diiferentheights at its outer end and means permit of easily and quickly raising have shown the tube 5 as pivotally mounted and lowering the outer end of the eonveyeron the lower part of the weigher-box 2 to perspout and swinging it laterally for the purmit of adjusting the conveyer-spout in differpose of changing its delivery into diiferent ent radial directions, as indicated by dot lines 5 receivers without any readjustment of its at Fig. 2. 8 supporting parts. An essential feature of the means for sup- The invention consists in constructions and porting the conveyer-spout below its upper combinations hereinafterdescribed and made support l, and for adjusting its lower end in the subject-matter of claims hereto appended. different positions, is the rod or bar 7, adj usto In the accompanying drawings, which illusable in length, and also adjustable both radi- 9o trate my invention constructed and combined ally and vertically with reference to the elein the best manner now known to me, Figure vator-spout. The bar 7 is formed, preferl is a side elevation showing the upper porably, of a tubular part 8 and a part 9, which tion of a grain-elevator tube, the box of a maybe tubular or solid. The part or rod 9 45 grain-weigher,aconductor-spout, and lnyimis slidably seated in the tubular part 8 to 5 proved means for supporting and adjusting form a telescopic joint, whereby the bar 7 said conductorspout; Fig. 2, a sectional plan may be lengthened or shortened, as herein of the elevatontube in line 2 2 in Fig. 1 and after described. The lower end of the rod 9 plan of the other parts shown at Fig. I, seen is pivoted between jaws 11 on the upper end 50 from below, looking upward; Figs. 3 and 4, part of a block 12 by a pivot-bolt 13-to perunit of swinging the bar 7 in a vertical plane on the pivot-bolt 13 as a center of motion. The lower end of the block 12 has a journal 1% projecting downwardly therefrom through a bearing 15 in the outer end of abracket 16, which projects laterally from the elevatortube 1, and is preferably secured to said tube, as shown at Figs. 1 and 2, by means of its forked ends. The journal 14, in turning in the bearing 15, will permit of adjusting the bar 7 at different angles radially from the elevator-spout, and with the hinge connection to the jaws 11 will form an ordinary twoway joint.

The upper end of the part 8 is pivotally and adj ustably connected with the conveyerspout 3 by means of a split clip 17, which is clamped on said spout by a bolt 18, and bya short coupling-block 19, which is pivotally connected at one end with the bolt 18, and at its other end is pivot-ally connected with the upper end of the part 8 by a bolt 20, which passes through it and the block 19 transversely to the bolt 18. By loosening the nut on the bolt 18 the split clip 17 may be adjusted lengthwise of the conveyor-spout 3, and again be fixed after such adjustment by tightening the nut. The collar 21 is loosely mounted on. the part or rod 9 to permit of adjusting it in diiferent positions lengthwise of said rod. Aftersuch adjustments as may be required the collar is fixed in position on the rod 9 by a thumb-screw 22.

At Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown a mechanical modification of the means hereinbefore described for supporting and adjusting the conveyer-spout-that is, a modification not embodying any invention over what is shown in the other figures of the drawingsa mere mechanical and not an inventive modification. In this modification the bracket-arm may be as shown by full lines at Fig. 3, or it may have a bracing-arm, as shown at Fig. 1. The outer end of this bracket has a head 12 journaled therein, so that it will permit the rod 23 to oscillate laterally therewith. The rod 23 passes through a V- shaped slot 24 in the head 12, which slot, while its narrow end alines the rod 23, will permit said rod to swing in a vertical plane by the gradual widening of said slot toward its other end. The rod 23 of Fig. at may be pivotally connected with the split clip 17 by means of the plate 19 in same manner as the part Sis connected therewith. The collar or stop 21 is mounted on the rod 23 and can be adjusted and fixed thereon to project the rod 23, more or less, at its right-hand end from the elevator-spout 1.

By adjusting the collar or stop 21 at different positions on the rod 5) it will hold the tubular rod 8 in different positions 011 the rod 9, and thereby lengthen or shorten the rod or bar 7, as may be desired or required to hold the conveyor-spout 3 with its lower end at diflerent elevations for the discharge of grain into wagons or other receivers at different heights. One of those elevated positions is shown by dot lines at Fig. 1. In adjustin g the conveyer-spout laterally, as indicated by the dot lines at Fig. 2, the block 12 will turn freely in its bearing 15 to permit or such adjustment, and the joint with two ax es of fleXure, formed by the block or plate 11 pivoted to the tubular rod 8 and the clip 17.

will permit of extended adjustments of the conveyer-spout, such as shown by the dot lines at Fig. 1. The rod or part 8 may be hinged directly to the clip 17 by the bolt 15. and thus dispense with the bolt 20 and the hinged joint formed thereon, by fitting the end of the rod 8 loosely between the ends or the clip 17, or by connecting the rod 8 with the ends of the clip by a ball'and-socket or other universal joint.

By means of the adjustments of the com veyer-spout described grain may not only be delivered at different heights, but at diffcn ent points and at different sides of a thresher and separator.

In delivering grain to wagons, as is the general practice in threshing in the field, an empty wagon is kept standing by the side of the wagon receiving grain from the conveyerspout. IVith my improved support for the conveyer-spout 3, when one wagon has rcceived its load, the discharge end of the conveyor-spout may be lifted (the tubular rod sliding outwardly on the rod 9 to permit thereof) and the conveyer -spout then be swung on the pivot 14 and with the tube 5 until its discharge end is located over the empty wagon. WVhen this last-referred-to wagon is loaded, the conveyer-spout may again be raised and swung back over another wagon occupying the place of the first one referred to above. This operation of raising and changing the conveyer-spout from one wagon to another without any adjustments of the collar 21 is one of the novel features of my improvement.

For adjustment of the conveyer-spout in its very highest position, the clip 17 can be adjusted nearer the upper end of said. spout than shown in the drawings.

Still other mechanical modifications than those I have herein described and various changes in the form, proportion, and details of construction may be made without depar ture from the purview of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination with a grain-elevator. and a grain-conveyer spout pivotally con nected therewith to be swung in both lateral and vertical directions, of a support for the conveyer-spout, comprising a bar adjustable lengthwise of itself, a hinge or pivotal connection of one end of said support with the elevator-spout, a hinge or pivotal connection. with the conveyer-spout, and means whereby the length of the support maybe adjusted. substantially as described.

2. The combination with a grain-elevator, and a grain-conveyer spout pivotally com nected therewith to be swung in both lateral and vertical directions, of a support for the conveyor-spout, comprising a bar adjustable in its length, a hinge or pivotal connection of one end of said support with the elevatorspout, a two-way hinge or pivotal connection with the conveyer-spout, and an adjustable stop which stop when fixed in position while permitting the support to be lengthened will limit the extent to which it can be shortened, substantially as described.

8. The combination with a grain-elevator, and a grain-conveyer spout pivotally connected therewith to be swung in both lateral and vertical directions, of a support for the conveyer-spout, comprising a bar in two parts adjustable lengthwise of each other,a two-way hinge or pivotal joint connection between one of said bars and the elevator-spout, and a hinge or pivotal joint connection between the other bar and a split clip adjustably mounted on the conveyer-spout, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a grain-elcvat0r, and a grain-conveyer spout pivotally connected therewith to be swung in both lateral and vertical directions, of a support for the conveyer-spout comprising a two-part bar with a sliding telescopic connection, a hinge or pivotal joint connection between the end of one of said bars and the conveyer-spout, a split clip mounted on the conveyenspout, a hinge or pivotal connection between said clip and the other of said bars, and a stop adjustably mounted on one of said bars, substantially as described. 7

5. The combination with a grain-elevator, and a grain-conveyer spout pivotally connected therewith to be swung in both lateral and vertical directions, of a support for the conveyer-spout, comprising a two-part bar with a sliding telescopic connection, a twoway-joint connection between the end of one of said bars and the conveyerspout, a split clip adjustably mounted on the conveyorspout, a hinge or pivotal connection between said clip and the other of said bars, and a stop adj ustably mounted on one of said bars, substantially as described.

6. The combination with a grain-elevator, and a grain-conveyer spout pivot-ally connected therewith to be swung in both lateral and vertical directions of a support for the conveyer-spout, comprising a bar 7 in two parts 8, 9, connected by a telescopic joint, a collar 21, a bracket 16, a block 12 pivotally mounted on said bracket and pivotally connected with the bar 9, a split clip 17 adjustably mounted on the conveyor-spout, and a pivotal connection between the bar 8 and the clip 17, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I EtfilX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES R. HARRISON. Vitnesses:

W. A. SELBY, S. N. OSHAUGHNESSY, 

